Can someone explain to me how you can write to Read Only Memory?

Except when you're on a motorcycle, then you're screwed. That's why I NEVER stop on a yellow when I'm on my bike, I much prefer to get a ticket than to be mowed down by the teenage girl texting while driving her father's SUV.

And Jack Tramiel...

I have never had a car not able to maintain a steady 80-85 mph, hill or no hill, even my first car, a 1983 Ford Escort with something like 65hp...

And I've been on the road for 22 years, with 14 different cars. 90% of these cars had small 4cyl engines.

I think the problem is most drivers can't be bothered to maintain their speed on hills, I'm often overtaken by cars going faster than me, and then I pass them on a hill, to be overtaken by them again after the hill, while I'm on cruise control and maintaining my speed +-1mph.

What if I find driving a relaxing and fun thing to do?

When I get out of the office to go home, why on earth would I want to continue doing office work???

Great idea, but how do you plan on doing those things while wearing your seat belt?

higher quality of life??? in the city???

So we just don't have to take a trip to anywhere now?

And it's not an argument against sending robot, it makes a lot of sense from a science point of view and I'm all for it.

But it's boring as hell. Last January I went to Paris for the first time, and let me tell you that it's way different than looking at beautiful pictures and exploring via Google Street View.

I would love to be able to go to the Moon or Mars someday... not that I think it will come to be in my lifetime sadly.

Well when I took my driving class (way back in the 80's), it was called an emergency brake and we were showed the proper way to use it in an emergency: frantically applying/releasing at a fast rate. This way you can actually slow down the car while not completely loosing control. By the way this was told as a measure of last resort. Since the hydraulic brakes of modern cars consists of two independant circuits, you need both of these to fail before completely losing your brakes.

And you won't overheat your brake fluid, because it's a mechanical brake, that works with a steel cable... You can overheat the braking shoes and be left with almost no braking power tough.

The car can't "ignore" the brake input, since it's a simple hydraulic mechanism.

Of course it can decide to provide less assist or alter the front/rear repartition slightly, or fire up the ABS at the wrong time or at the wrong rate (thus reducing braking power).

I don't know where you learned COBOL, but passing parameters by reference is not only possible but also very easy... you just add "BY REFERENCE" after the parameter...

You can pass by value, by reference, by content, and also you can pass the address of the parameter.

Exactly, My old dryer had 2 motors, one for the fan and one to turn the drum. That drum was mounted on 8 ball bearing rubber wheels.

The newer one has only one motor doing both duties, and the drum, at the front, is resting on a strip of felt glued on the metal lip of the round opening, and at the back it's a centrally mounted metal sphere resting in a plastic hole, with a little grease.

After ten years the felt is so thin that it's about to get metal to metal.

Great!